UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

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Tomtom

Tomtom
OMG ZOMGS! I just discovered that if you speed up the UP 'idle' sounds, and chop it up into little bits, and rearrange those bits according to some undisclosed method encoded in the UP honk-response image, it sounds like it's trying to sing this:

[video=youtube;ZPyCFVQVLzs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPyCFVQVLzs[/video]

note: this video is not my creation: I found it while looking for the original tune, though sadly every video seems to have been blocked in the UK by UMG. This 8-bit version is rather sweet though, and I like it!

Levity aside though: I really just wanted to say to everybody, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! It truly is a pleasure to be part of this whole mystery, and the community picking away at it. Keep the ideas coming, and fear not failure! Real science cares not for opinion so if you have a theory, can test the theory, and are brave enough to put the theory up for peer review it does not matter one jot if at some point the theory fails; questions have still been answered, science has still been done, and you can continue to wear your "Trust Me, I'm a Scientist" badge with pride. So hold your tin-foil capped heads high, and keep on hypothesizing!

And to Mr Brookes and whoever else at FD is behind this mystery: thank you, and congrats on creating something that is so literally wonderful.

Right now I'm raising a glass of single malt to you all. Cheers! :D
 

Th3 0utKa5t

Th3 0utKa5t
CMDRDemonEyesCain said:
What time zone is that? Im central time ( -6), so its difficult for me to keep up with everyone. Is it the time on the clock in the top right? Thats noon my time tomorrow. I may have to leave work at lunch and check it out. Or take my xbox and tv to work.

I feel like we may be on to something, because we know M5s orbit around the M5,M6 baricenter is so small its in the star, M6 may as well be a moon to M5 but its not. Both M6 and M5c are tidally locked, M6 to Merope and M5c to M5. Also, the giant impact crater on M5c and the reversed pole. This area of merope is all kinds of unusual, and with the mystery being "space based" this seems like a likely xandidate.
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im not sure what time zone its set too but Orrery does display todays date when loading but not sure that accurate to in game, i hope it is and if so it may be GMT + 1h (BST) the time in this http://www.elitegalaxyonline.com/orrery/?system_id=4216 is what im going by

before its get picked up, by todays date i mean the month and day, the year is in game year, 3302 ;-)
 
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rizal72

rizal72
pocketmoon said:
Can we agree that if the following are both true, it would be a huge co-incidence ?

1) The sonogram shows four binary digits; --1 -1- -11 and 1-- which we can translate as 001 010 011 and 100
2) The tuba binary sequence, if taken to be groups of 3 digits, never includes 000 or 111 and rarely 101 or 110. So is mostly 001 010 011 and 100.

I transcribed the Merope Up 6 Minute audio and got this;

110 010 010 011 010 011 011 001 011 010 101 001 100 100 110 011 001 010 011 010 010

Note the sequence starts with a rising series of tuba notes before it settles into the High/Low pattern.

Is there a central list of transposed binary tuba values that we can add to/compare with ?
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Not yet, but being my personal theory as well, I'll do it when I come back from holidays.

Right now, here is my last transcription, from CMDR Arguendo's

1. - = High, l = Low.

l l -
l - -
l l -
l l -
l l -
- l -
l l -
- l -
- l l
- l -
- l -
l - l
- l l
- - l
l - l
l - -
l l -
- l l
- l -
l l -
- l -
l l -

In my interpretation ||- is the negative of -||.
Anyway at least a couple of |-| are there to brake the theory. :(

Same thing inverting the - and |.
 
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Bungalo

Bungalo
Vent said:
As suggested by Bungalo of The Canonn, I have performed a couple more experiments in an attempt to determine when a UP will light up and wail and when it will not. The data recorded can be found in the post linked in my signature.

It seems that the UP will wail when in proximity of a planet, but not a (main) star. With proximity I mean when the bottom left panel of your ship's HUD says the name of the nearby celestial body. The UP will not wail when in deep space. The significance of this is unclear.

During the last test of these experiments, I lost my UP when I disconnected while I had it out. You can see in the last video that I franctically and clumsily tried to scoop the UP when I noticed that my connection was dying. I managed to scoop the UP at the client-side in the end, but this couldn't salvage the situation. I disconnected shortly after and upon relogging, the UP was not in my cargo hold. A ticket to FD support has been sent in the hopes of getting it back.
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:) Thanks Vent. I mourn the loss of your UP, hopefully you get it back soon.

To add just a bit I believe the planet you tested by was a landable planet?

Ive also got Netslayer and Starbeaver testing some of this and they haven't had any deep space UP howls.

Just some musings:
We need more tests with different celestial bodies. It would also be helpful to know the distance the UP has to be to have a wail triggered from a particular celestial body.

There may be more to this than just wails or no wails.The number or the spacing could be important. I still believe initially howls per minute is a good metric to use for 3-4 minute recordings.

Theoretically the same planet type in two different systems may yield a different response with the wails.

An unrelated note:
I keep typing wails and keep thinking of Han-zens' space whales :)
 

who?

who?
CMDR GTR2014 said:
One thing i'm sure, we are close to the awnser, if we we're away from it, Brookes would have gave us more tips....
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I don't know.. I think they have their own timeline for moving things on, should we get stuck. For instance they gave us clues about where to find the barnacles very quickly; before anyone was really asking for them.

I'd guess they weren't expecting us to find the spectrogram so quickly after the EMP/scan/emission, so maybe this bit has been drawn out a little.
 

CFF

C
Q: So that means the information in the UP about the planet in the sound is NOT merope it is from a nearby planet probably in the UA range.
Its just the wording the U P is the PROBE which is something you'd think would be the thing looking since its a probe.. the artifact who knows what it is. Maybe it is the more advanced of the 2?
Originally Posted by Michael Brookes (Source)
That's a testable theory.

Michael




If we go back to this exchange, I think MB's response is about the first sentence (it's the only thing that seems truly 'testable'). If we accept that, there is one other interesting thing about this comment, he is implicitly agreeing that the UP image is a planet. He's saying that the 'testable' theory is that the planet in the UP sound is NOT Merope 5C, but a planet in range of a UA. Maybe the 'key' aspect is that it's a set of instructions for finding out what planet a UA is broadcasting pictures of our ships to?
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Davanix said:
Eyes on the skies commanders. Something is happening "Soon" as Drew pointed out on the Formidable rift thread.
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Not really related to this UP storyline. Might be a tenuous overarching link possibly, but thay's Drew's story and the UPs are MBs and DBOBEs.

Still - seems FD have briught Drew on to develop his ideas, so good news for rifters.
 

Molith

M
CFF said:
Q: So that means the information in the UP about the planet in the sound is NOT merope it is from a nearby planet probably in the UA range.
Its just the wording the U P is the PROBE which is something you'd think would be the thing looking since its a probe.. the artifact who knows what it is. Maybe it is the more advanced of the 2?
Originally Posted by Michael Brookes [url]https://forums-cdn.frontier.co.uk/images/frontier/buttons/viewpost-right.png (Source)[/URL]
That's a testable theory.

Michael




If we go back to this exchange, I think MB's response is about the first sentence (it's the only thing that seems truly 'testable'). If we accept that, there is one other interesting thing about this comment, he is implicitly agreeing that the UP image is a planet. He's saying that the 'testable' theory is that the planet in the UP sound is NOT Merope 5C, but a planet in range of a UA. Maybe the 'key' aspect is that it's a set of instructions for finding out what planet a UA is broadcasting pictures of our ships to?
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That would imply that MB wants to give us a hint with that sentence, in that we SHALL test this theory to make a step forward in solving this mystery.

However, for this to work, you still make the assumption that MB wants to help us. This assumption might be false.
 

StaticAwesome

S
Guys, one of my previous theories is starting to line up. I saw in the news of G 99-49 (one of the UP locations) that Ross 128 was interested in something there. Ross 128 is permit locked, and near all this craziness. Sirius is nearby as well. It's not a whole lot, but has anyone tried searching Ross 128 for UPs? Makes sense that the UPs/UAs would be held/manufactured/tested with prisoners, or the whole prison thing is a cover.
 

CookieJarviz

CookieJarviz
pocketmoon said:
Can we agree that if the following are both true, it would be a huge co-incidence ?

1) The sonogram shows four binary digits; --1 -1- -11 and 1-- which we can translate as 001 010 011 and 100
2) The tuba binary sequence, if taken to be groups of 3 digits, never includes 000 or 111 and rarely 101 or 110. So is mostly 001 010 011 and 100.

I transcribed the Merope Up 6 Minute audio and got this;

110 010 010 011 010 011 011 001 011 010 101 001 100 100 110 011 001 010 011 010 010

Note the sequence starts with a rising series of tuba notes before it settles into the High/Low pattern.

Is there a central list of transposed binary tuba values that we can add to/compare with ?
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CONGRATULATIONS! YOUR THE SECOND PERSON TO REALISE YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO THE UP! now. figure out how to use the ring as a decoder ring.
 

Ironhide Wrex

Ironhide Wrex
Molith said:
That would imply that MB wants to give us a hint with that sentence, in that we SHALL test this theory to make a step forward in solving this mystery.

However, for this to work, you still make the assumption that MB wants to help us. This assumption might be false.
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Must admit, if this was my story I would throw every murky misdirect I could short of outright lying.

Mr. Brookes is obviously a talented and intelligent man, and exactly the sort who would merely sit back and look enigmatic when people incorrectly attribute their own meanings into his words. One cannot expect a magician to reveal his tricks...
 
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CMDR Davanix

CMDR Davanix
LordZoltan said:
Not really related to this UP storyline. Might be a tenuous overarching link possibly, but thay's Drew's story and the UPs are MBs and DBOBEs.

Still - seems FD have briught Drew on to develop his ideas, so good news for rifters.
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Nothing was ever set in stone to say both storys wont be connected although nothing said they were either. But yes i know for now they are separate storys but its good to keep an eye on both incase they are some reference to eachother.
 

CookieJarviz

CookieJarviz
Davanix said:
Nothing was ever set in stone to say both storys wont be connected although nothing said they were either. But yes i know for now they are separate storys but its good to keep an eye on both incase they are some reference to eachother.
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If it involves aliens. It involves everyone. Drew said Eyes on the skies. there is only 1 other thing that can fly other than us. and thats aliens.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
TFW Primus said:
You can clearly see the hard lines of shading in there. The question is, is this a bug, a side effect of the shading method used, or a hidden alien construct that is cloaked? :)

To get answers, open a bug report and also check other planets/moons outside of Merope, as others have suggested, just to be sure.
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What are the coordinates of this location?
 
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